- Eduardo Barrios
- Born: 25 OCT 1884 – Valparaíso, Chile
- Died: 13 SEP 1963
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Chilean National Prize for Literature (1946)
- Atenea Prize for the University of Concepción (1949)
- María Luisa Bombal
- Born: 08 AUG 1910 – Viña del Mar, Chile
- Died: 06 MAY 1980 – Santiago
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Ariel Dorfman
- Born: 06 MAY 1942 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Chilean prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Chile Films Award (1972)
- Israeli Alternative Theatre Festival Prize (1987)
- Kennedy Center-American Express New American Plays Award (1988)
- Time Out Award (London, 1991)
- Olivier Award (London, 1992)
- Augusto D’Halmar (Augusto Geommine Thompson)
- Born: 23 APR 1882 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: 27 JAN 1950
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1942 – the first ever to receive it)
- José Donoso
- Born: 05 OCT 1924 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: 07 DEC 1996 – Santiago
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- City of Santiago Prize (1955)
- Chile-Italy Prize for Journalism (1960)
- William Faulkner Foundation Prize (1962)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1968, 1973)
- Critics’ Prize (Spain, 1979)
- Encomienda con Placa de la Order de Alfonso X el Sabio (1987)
- National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1990)
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship (1992)
- Joge Edwards
- Born: 29 JUL 1931 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Diamela Eltit
- Born: ?? ??? 1949 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Guggenheim Grant (1985)
- Social Science Research Council Scholarship (1988)
- Vincente Huidobro
- Born: 10 JAN 1893 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: 02 JAN 1948 – Cartagena, Colombia
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Enrique Lihn
- Born: 03 SEP 1929 – Santiago, Chile
- Died: 24 JUL 1988
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Casa de las Américas of Poetry Prize (1966)
- Baldomero Lillo
- Born: 06 JAN 1867 – Lota, Chile
- Died: 10 SEP 1923
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Gabriela Mistral
- Born: 07 APR 1889 – Vicuña, Chile
- Died: 10 JAN 1957 – Hempstead, New York, USA
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Nobel Prize for Literature (1945)
- Franciscan American Prize (1950)
- National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1951)
- Pablo Neruda (Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
- Born: 12 JUL 1904 – Parral, Chile
- Died: 23 SEP 1973 – ??
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Co-editor of Caballo Verde para la Poesia, Spain (1935-1936)
- Co-editor of Aurora de Chile (1938)
- Member of the World Peace Council (1950-????)
- President of the Union of Chilean Writers (1957-1973)
- National Literature Prize (1945)
- Stalin Peace Prize (1953)
- Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Cultural Understanding (1967)
- Nobel Prize for Literature (1971)
- Nicanor Parra
- Born: 05 SEP 1914 – San Fabián, Chile
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- City of Santiago Prize (1937, 1954)
- Writers’ Union Prize (1954)
- National Literature Prize (1969)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1972)
- Juan Rulfo Prize (1991)
- Violeta Parra
- Born: 04 OCT 1917 – San Carlos, Nuble, Chile
- Died: 05 FEB 1967 – Santiago, Chile
- Type: Song writer
- Achievements:
- Helped rescue Chile’s authentic rural music
- Caupolicán Prize as Outstanding Folklorist of the Year (1953)
- First to have an individual show by a Latin American artist in the Museum of Mankind (Paris, 1963)
- Gonzalo Rojas
- Born: ?? ??? 1917 – Chile
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- National Prize for Literature (1992)
- Reina Sofía Prize for Poetry (1992)
- Antonio Skármeta
- Born: 07 NOV 1940 – Antofagasta, Chile
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Casa de las Américas Prize (1969)
- Daniel Belmar Prize (1969)
- Biarritz Film Festival Prize (1983)
- Huelva Film Festival Prize (1983)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1986)
- Born: 25 OCT 1884 – Valparaíso, Chile
